Hyderabad techie drained after conducting fifteen 45-minute interviews: 'I'd rather code'

A Google techie from Hyderabad has posted that after getting drained of energy conducting interviews on behalf of the technology giant, she realized that it was more draining to conduct interviews than to give them. Anu Sharma, aged 22, informed Moneycontrol that she had conducted over 15 candidates' interviews within the past two months as her additional community contribution. These job interviews take approximately 45 minutes to one hour and are done outside her work time.

"Having done over 15 job interviews at Google, I've found interviewing is more tiring than being interviewed," Sharma said. She said she has been doing two to three interviews a week and has done about 20 of them in her time at the tech giant. "Interviewing at least you're coding and solving something. Interviewing, you have to sit and listen intensely. I'd rather code."

Responding to a question regarding the average length of each interview, she stated it takes "45 minutes, but it goes on like 5-10 minutes". Sharma further added that another challenge in carrying out interviews is "actively solving the problem along with the interviewee".

As her post started attracting eyeballs -- it had got over 40,000 views -- Sharma soon started getting bombarded with requests from job hunters and curious onlookers about what type of questions Google asks in job interviews.

An X user wrote, "Please upload the interview questions." Sharma said, "I can't."

It did not seem to discourage others from attempting.

"At least can you say from what are all the subjects the questions were asked normally?" another user inquired, while a third one chimed in, "I am in my 2nd year of my college pursuing my BSc in computer science. Can you please inform me what I should study to obtain an internship at Google in my third year and a job upon graduation as a software engineer?"